Moving shop from local to www

[aragorn231]

I've been customizing a shop locally on my PC the last few weeks and started wondering about something. When the shop is ready for the public I would need to set it up on my webspace. Is this as easy as uploading the catalog folder and restoring a backup of the database, or are there more steps to it?

I understand that I would need to modify catalog/includes/configure.php, but is this the only file that would need to be modified?

Or is there a more interesting way to establish this?

Oh, if this is already covered somewhere else you can just direct me there if you want...

[stevel]

That's pretty much it. You will probably need to edit the configure.php files to specify the proper PowWeb local paths (DIR_FS_xxx defines) and the SQL information.

[aragorn231]

Thanks Steve.

One more question related to this: when I installed OsCommerce I chose not to use SSL. When I move the shop to the internet I'd like to enable SSL. Is this just the one setting in the configure.php that would need to be modified or is it not as straightforward as that?

[tacimala]

Everything would need to be taken care of in the catalog/includes/configure.php and catalog/admin/includes/configure.php. Just make the necessary changes in those two files and you'll be all set!